This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Is it possible that we are the result of an evolutionary one night stand? Evolutionary biologist and archeologist, Prof. Darrent Curnoe takes us on a whirlwind trip on the history of our species.
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Living fossils are fossilized animals and plants that look similar to modern organisms. Random mutations would have been occurring in creatures throughout such supposed vast time periods separating the assumed ancient and modern organisms. How then would 'living fossils' remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years, if evolution has changed worms into humans in the same time frame?
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In this episode:
Ian shocks the world by recanting creationism and embracing evolutionism, and it would seem appropriate that he would do this on National Evolution Day. The episode is about the evidence that swayed his opinion: Scientists make life in the lab, researchers uncover a complete series of fossil hominids from the Afar region of Africa, and convincing reader comments.
Random References:
"Spontaneous generation of complete organs using simple aparatus simulating prebiotic world" http://bit.ly/GUJFjy
"Five fossil hominids from Afar region complete evolutionary sequence of man" http://alturl.com/extmo
Ticker tape:
Dr. Andrew Snelling finds major flaws in RATE research, concludes rocks really are a billion years old: http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh
Dr. Michael Behe keynote speech at reason rally 2012, admitting that the flagellum must have evolved: http://bit.ly/4kb77v

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In this rant, Ian discusses more scientific and natural laws that evolution must violate, thus showing evolution is neither scientific nor natural, but supernatural by definition.

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In this episode: Richard Leakey thinks the debate is almost over, South Korea removes evolution from their textbooks, and a Gallup poll shows that Americans still believe creation over evolution. This is Genesis Week, episode 17 of season 1 with Ian Juby, aka Wazooloo.
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In this episode: A fishapod that can't walk, earth's geomagnetic field still can't be explained by naturalistic models, we dive into the mailbag addressing the burning question of "Where have all the human fossils gone?"
this is episode 16 of season 1 (a week late, sawry! I'm on the road)
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Modern humans have about 1 to 3% Neanderthal DNA and some Denisovan DNA. Australian Aborigines have the highest proportion of Denisovan DNA, at about 4 to 6%. Modern Africans lack Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA. Some modern human immune system genes - HLA-A genes - contain very high proportions of DNA from these archaic cousins. So, it appears that modern humans may have mated with Neanderthals and Denisovans as the former spread out of Africa and across Eurasia, in the process gaining important disease-resistance genes.
[However, a recent paper has raised doubts about the hybridisation hypothesis, claiming instead that the shared DNA could be explained by shared ancestry, rather than interbreeding.]
Sources:
Catalyst, ABC TV,, 20 September 2012.
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3593813.htm
[ http://phys.org/news/2012-08-esearch-modern-humans-neanderthals-interbred.html#jCp
Effect of ancient population structure on the degree of polymorphism shared between modern human populations and ancient hominins
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2012 109 (35) 13956-13960
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/35/13956.abstract ]